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Ratnayake WS, Apostolatos CA, Breedy S, Dennison CL, Hill R, Acevedo-Duncan M. Atypical PKCs activate Vimentin to facilitate prostate cancer cell motility and invasion. Cell Adh Migr 2021; 15:37-57. [PMID: 33525953 PMCID: PMC7889213 DOI: 10.1080/19336918.2021.1882782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Atypical protein kinase C (aPKC) are involved in progression of many human cancers. Vimentin is expressed during epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT). Molecular dynamics of Vimentin intermediate filaments (VIFs) play a key role in metastasis. This article is an effort to provide thorough understanding of the relationship between Vimentin and aPKCs . We demonstrate that diminution of aPKCs lead to attenuate prostate cellular metastasis through the downregulation of Vimentin expression. siRNA knocked-down SNAIL1 and PRRX1 reduce aPKC activity along with Vimentin. Results suggest that aPKCs target multiple activation sites (Ser33/39/56) on Vimentin and therefore is essential for VIF dynamics regulation during the metastasis of prostate cancer cells. Understanding the aPKC related molecular mechanisms may provide a novel therapeutic path for prostate carcinoma.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida , Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida , Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida , Tampa, FL, USA
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Sanghvi-Shah R, Weber GF. Intermediate Filaments at the Junction of Mechanotransduction, Migration, and Development. Front Cell Dev Biol 2017; 5:81. [PMID: 28959689 PMCID: PMC5603733 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2017.00081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2017] [Accepted: 08/30/2017] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Mechanically induced signal transduction has an essential role in development. Cells actively transduce and respond to mechanical signals and their internal architecture must manage the associated forces while also being dynamically responsive. With unique assembly-disassembly dynamics and physical properties, cytoplasmic intermediate filaments play an important role in regulating cell shape and mechanical integrity. While this function has been recognized and appreciated for more than 30 years, continually emerging data also demonstrate important roles of intermediate filaments in cell signal transduction. In this review, with a particular focus on keratins and vimentin, the relationship between the physical state of intermediate filaments and their role in mechanotransduction signaling is illustrated through a survey of current literature. Association with adhesion receptors such as cadherins and integrins provides a critical interface through which intermediate filaments are exposed to forces from a cell's environment. As a consequence, these cytoskeletal networks are posttranslationally modified, remodeled and reorganized with direct impacts on local signal transduction events and cell migratory behaviors important to development. We propose that intermediate filaments provide an opportune platform for cells to both cope with mechanical forces and modulate signal transduction.
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- Rucha Sanghvi-Shah
- Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University-NewarkNewark, NJ, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University-NewarkNewark, NJ, United States
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Saldanha O, Brennich ME, Burghammer M, Herrmann H, Köster S. The filament forming reactions of vimentin tetramers studied in a serial-inlet microflow device by small angle x-ray scattering. BIOMICROFLUIDICS 2016; 10:024108. [PMID: 27042250 PMCID: PMC4798992 DOI: 10.1063/1.4943916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2015] [Accepted: 03/02/2016] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The structural organization of metazoan cells and their shape are established through the coordinated interaction of a composite network consisting of three individual filament systems, collectively termed the cytoskeleton. Specifically, microtubules and actin filaments, which assemble from monomeric globular proteins, provide polar structures that serve motor proteins as tracks. In contrast, intermediate filaments (IFs) assemble from highly charged, extended coiled coils in a hierarchical assembly mechanism of lateral and longitudinal interaction steps into non-polar structures. IF proteins are expressed in a distinctly tissue-specific way and thereby serve to generate the precise plasticity of the respective cells and tissues. Accordingly, in the cell, numerous parameters such as pH and salt concentration are adjusted such that the generation of functional networks is ensured. Here, we transfer the problem for the mesenchymal IF protein vimentin to an in vitro setting and combine small angle x-ray scattering with microfluidics and finite element method simulations. Our approach is adapted to resolve the early assembly steps, which take place in the sub-second to second range. In particular, we reveal the influence of ion species and concentrations on the assembly. By tuning the flow rates and thus concentration profiles, we find a minimal critical salt concentration for the initiation of the assembly. Furthermore, our analysis of the surface sensitive Porod regime in the x-ray data reveals that the formation of first assembly intermediates, so-called unit length filaments, is not a one-step reaction but consists of distinct consecutive lateral association steps followed by radial compaction as well as smoothening of the surface of the full-width filament.
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- Oliva Saldanha
- Institute for X-Ray Physics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute for X-Ray Physics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute for X-Ray Physics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Iwatsuki H, Suda M. Seven kinds of intermediate filament networks in the cytoplasm of polarized cells: structure and function. Acta Histochem Cytochem 2010; 43:19-31. [PMID: 20514289 PMCID: PMC2875862 DOI: 10.1267/ahc.10009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2010] [Accepted: 03/15/2010] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Intermediate filaments (IFs) are involved in many important physiological functions, such as the distribution of organelles, signal transduction, cell polarity and gene regulation. However, little information exists on the structure of the IF networks performing these functions. We have clarified the existence of seven kinds of IF networks in the cytoplasm of diverse polarized cells: an apex network just under the terminal web, a peripheral network lying just beneath the cell membrane, a granule-associated network surrounding a mass of secretory granules, a Golgi-associated network surrounding the Golgi apparatus, a radial network locating from the perinuclear region to the specific area of the cell membrane, a juxtanuclear network surrounding the nucleus, and an entire cytoplasmic network. In this review, we describe these seven kinds of IF networks and discuss their biological roles.
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- Department of Anatomy, Kawasaki Medical School
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Hyder CL, Pallari HM, Kochin V, Eriksson JE. Providing cellular signposts - Post-translational modifications of intermediate filaments. FEBS Lett 2008; 582:2140-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.04.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2008] [Revised: 04/29/2008] [Accepted: 04/30/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Yang F, Jaitly N, Jayachandran H, Luo Q, Monroe ME, Du X, Gritsenko MA, Zhang R, Anderson DJ, Purvine SO, Adkins JN, Moore RJ, Ding SJ, Mottaz HM, Lipton MS, Camp DG, Udseth HR, Smith RD, Rossie S. Applying a targeted label-free approach using LC-MS AMT tags to evaluate changes in protein phosphorylation following phosphatase inhibition. J Proteome Res 2007; 6:4489-97. [PMID: 17929957 PMCID: PMC2516346 DOI: 10.1021/pr070068e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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To identify phosphoproteins regulated by the phosphoprotein phosphatase (PPP) family of S/T phosphatases, we performed a large-scale characterization of changes in protein phosphorylation on extracts from HeLa cells treated with or without calyculin A, a potent PPP enzyme inhibitor. A label-free comparative phosphoproteomics approach using immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography and targeted tandem mass spectrometry was employed to discover and identify signatures based upon distinctive changes in abundance. Overall, 232 proteins were identified as either direct or indirect targets for PPP enzyme regulation. Most of the present identifications represent novel PPP enzyme targets at the level of both phosphorylation site and protein. These include phosphorylation sites within signaling proteins such as p120 Catenin, A Kinase Anchoring Protein 8, JunB, and Type II Phosphatidyl Inositol 4 Kinase. These data can be used to define underlying signaling pathways and events regulated by the PPP family of S/T phosphatases.
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- Feng Yang
- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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- Department of Biochemistry and Purdue Cancer Center, Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2084
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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- Department of Biochemistry and Purdue Cancer Center, Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2084
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Keratin 8 (K8) variants predispose to human liver injury via poorly understood mechanisms. We generated transgenic mice that overexpress the human disease-associated K8 Gly61-to-Cys (G61C) variant and showed that G61C predisposes to liver injury and apoptosis and dramatically inhibits K8 phosphorylation at serine 73 (S73) via stress-activated kinases. This led us to generate mice that overexpress K8 S73-to-Ala (S73A), which mimicked the susceptibility of K8 G61C mice to injury, thereby providing a molecular link between K8 phosphorylation and disease-associated mutation. Upon apoptotic stimulation, G61C and S73A hepatocytes have persistent and increased nonkeratin proapoptotic substrate phosphorylation by stress-activated kinases, compared with wild-type hepatocytes, in association with an inability to phosphorylate K8 S73. Our findings provide the first direct link between patient-related human keratin variants and liver disease predisposition. The highly abundant cytoskeletal protein K8, and possibly other keratins with the conserved S73-containing phosphoepitope, can protect tissue from injury by serving as a phosphate “sponge” for stress-activated kinases and thereby provide a novel nonmechanical function for intermediate filament proteins.
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- Nam-On Ku
- Department of Medicine, Palo Alto VA Medical Center and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
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Cheng TJ, Tseng YF, Chang WM, Chang MDT, Lai YK. Retaining of the assembly capability of vimentin phosphorylated by mitogen-activated protein kinase-activated protein kinase-2. J Cell Biochem 2003; 89:589-602. [PMID: 12761892 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.10511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Intermediate filament (IF) networks can be regulated by phosphorylation of unit proteins, such as vimentin, by specific kinases leading to reorganization of the IF filamentous structure. Recently, we identified mitogen-activated protein kinase-activated protein kinase-2 (MAPKAP kinase-2) as a vimentin kinase (Cheng and Lai [1998] J. Cell. Biochem. 71:169-181). Herein we describe the results of further in vitro studies investigating the effects of MAPKAP kinase-2 phosphorylation on vimentin and the effects of the phosphorylation on the filamentous structure. We show that MAPKAP kinase-2 mainly phosphorylates vimentin at Ser-38, Ser-50, Ser-55, and Ser-82, residues all located in the head domain of the protein. Surprisingly, and in stark contrast to phosphorylation by most other kinases, phosphorylation of vimentin by MAPKAP kinase-2 has no discernable effect on its assembly. It suggested that structure disassembly is not the only obligated consequence of phosphorylated vimentin as regulated by other kinases. Finally, a mutational analysis of each of the phosphorylated serine residues in vimentin suggested that no single serine site was primarily responsible for structure maintenance, implying that the retention of filamentous structure may be the result of the coordinated action of several phosphorylated serine sites. This also shed new lights on the functional task(s) of vimentin that is intermediate filament proteins might provide a phosphate reservoir to accommodate the phosphate surge without any structural changes.
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- Ting-Jen Cheng
- Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinshu, Taiwan 30013, Republic of China
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The presence and organization of intermediate filament (IF) proteins in petaloid coelomocytes from two species of echinoderms, the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droehachiensis and the sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa, were studied. Two monoclonal antibodies (IFA and Ah6) and one polyclonal antibody (W3-1) that together recognize invertebrate as well as vertebrate IF proteins were used to probe coelomocytes by immunofluorescence and immunoblotting methods. All three antibodies cross-reacted with a single Mr 68,000 sea urchin lamin, as well as two putative lamin isoforms of approximately Mr 70,000 and 68,000 in sea cucumber coelomocytes. Both IFA and Ah6 labeled granular material in the cytoplasm of sea urchin coelomocytes; by contrast, IFA labeling revealed a striking network of reticular material irregularly arrayed within the central regions of the sea cucumber coelomocyte cytoplasm. In addition, foci of Ah6-positive material were present in coelomocyte nuclei from both species. Comparison of immunoblotting patterns among whole cell and isolated nuclear preparations suggest that the cytoplasmic IF-like material is composed of Mr 46,000 and 58,000 polypeptides, while Mr 215,000 and 185,000 proteins are candidates for the immunoreactive nuclear foci. Further study of the functions of these non-filamentous arrays of IF proteins may furnish valuable insights into the evolution of IF function within vertebrate cells, particularly with respect to certain cytoplasmic and nuclear regulatory functions with which IF proteins have been speculated to be involved.
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- J Holy
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Duluth 55812-2487, USA.
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Zatloukal K, Stumptner C, Lehner M, Denk H, Baribault H, Eshkind LG, Franke WW. Cytokeratin 8 protects from hepatotoxicity, and its ratio to cytokeratin 18 determines the ability of hepatocytes to form Mallory bodies. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2000; 156:1263-74. [PMID: 10751352 PMCID: PMC1876873 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)64997-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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In alcoholic hepatitis, a severe form of alcohol-induced toxic liver injury, as well as in experimental intoxication of mice with the porphyrinogenic drugs griseofulvin and 3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-1, 4-dihydrocollidine, hepatocytes form cytoplasmic protein aggregates (Mallory bodies; MBs) containing cytokeratins (CKs) and non-CK components. Here we report that mice lacking the CK8 gene and hence CK intermediate filaments in hepatocytes, but still expressing the type I partner, ie, the CK18 gene, do not form MBs but suffer from extensive porphyria and progressive toxic liver damage, leading to the death of a considerable number of animals (7 of 12 during 12 weeks of intoxication). Our observations show that 1) in the absence of CK8 as well as in the situation of a relative excess of CK18 over CK8 no MBs are formed; 2) the loss of CK8 is not compensated by other type II CKs; and 3) porphyria and toxic liver damage are drastically enhanced in the absence of CK8. Our results point to a protective role of CKs in certain types of toxic liver injury and suggest that MBs by themselves are not harmful to hepatocytes but may be considered as a product of a novel defense mechanism in hepatocytes.
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- K Zatloukal
- Department of Pathology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
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Cheng TJ, Lin YL, Chiang AS, Lai YK. Association of protein phosphatase 2A with its substrate vimentin intermediate filaments in 9L rat brain tumor cells. J Cell Biochem 2000. [DOI: 10.1002/1097-4644(2000)79:1<126::aid-jcb120>3.0.co;2-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Luby-Phelps K. Cytoarchitecture and physical properties of cytoplasm: volume, viscosity, diffusion, intracellular surface area. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1999; 192:189-221. [PMID: 10553280 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)60527-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 716] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Classical biochemistry is founded on several assumptions valid in dilute aqueous solutions that are often extended without question to the interior milieu of intact cells. In the first section of this chapter, we present these assumptions and briefly examine the ways in which the cell interior may depart from the conditions of an ideal solution. In the second section, we summarize experimental evidence regarding the physical properties of the cell cytoplasm and their effect on the diffusion and binding of macromolecules and vesicles. While many details remain to be worked out, it is clear that the aqueous phase of the cytoplasm is crowded rather than dilute, and that the diffusion and partitioning of macromolecules and vesicles in cytoplasm is highly restricted by steric hindrance as well as by unexpected binding interactions. Furthermore, the enzymes of several metabolic pathways are now known to be organized into structural and functional units with specific localizations in the solid phase, and as much as half the cellular protein content may also be in the solid phase.
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- K Luby-Phelps
- Department of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-9040, USA
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Windoffer R, Leube RE. Detection of cytokeratin dynamics by time-lapse fluorescence microscopy in living cells. J Cell Sci 1999; 112 ( Pt 24):4521-34. [PMID: 10574702 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.112.24.4521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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To monitor the desmosome-anchored cytokeratin network in living cells fusion protein HK13-EGFP consisting of human cytokeratin 13 and the enhanced green fluorescent protein was stably expressed in vulvar carcinoma-derived A-431 cells. It is shown for A-431 subclone AK13-1 that HK13-EGFP emits strong fluorescence in fixed and living cells, being part of an extended cytoplasmic intermediate filament network that is indistinguishable from that of parent A-431 cells. Biochemical, immunological and ultrastructural analyses demonstrate that HK13-EGFP behaves identically to the endogenous cytokeratin 13 and is therefore a reliable in vivo tag for this polypeptide and the structures formed by it. Time-lapse fluorescence microscopy reveals that the cytokeratin 13-containing network is in constant motion, resulting in continuous restructuring occurring in single and migratory cells, as well as in desmosome-anchored cells. Two major types of movement are distinguished: (i) oscillations of mostly long filaments, and (ii) an inward-directed flow of fluorescence originating as diffuse material at the cell periphery and moving in the form of dots and thin filaments toward the deeper cytoplasm where it coalesces with other filaments and filament bundles. Both movements are energy dependent and can be inhibited by nocodazole, but not by cytochalasin D. Finally, disassembly and reformation of cytokeratin filament networks are documented in dividing cells revealing distinct and rapidly occurring stages of cytokeratin organisation and distribution.
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- R Windoffer
- Department of Anatomy, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Becherweg 13, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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Iwatsuki H, Sasaki K, Suda M, Itano C. Vimentin intermediate filament protein as differentiation marker of optic vesicle epithelium in the chick embryo. Acta Histochem 1999; 101:369-82. [PMID: 10611926 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-1281(99)80038-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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For the study of the differentiation process of optic vesicle epithelium into neural retina, pigment epithelium and pars caeca retinae, vimentin intermediate filament protein in retinal epithelial cells was detected immunohistochemically in chick embryo at stages 11-21. In the late stage of optic vesicle development (stage 14), optic vesicle epithelium was classified into the following 3 different portions on the basis of vimentin staining intensity: latero-central epithelium under the lens placode, medio-central epithelium facing the latero-central epithelium, and peripheral epithelium connecting the latero-central and medio-central epithelia. Latero-central epithelium, the future neural retina, exhibited strongest staining of vimentin of the 3 portions. In contrast, medio-central epithelium, the future pigment epithelium, showed weakest staining. Moderate staining was observed in peripheral epithelium, the future pars caeca retinae. These differences in levels of vimentin expression were observed during optic cup formation. The present results clearly demonstrate that differentiation of retinal epithelium into neural retina, pigment epithelium and pars caeca retinae occurs in the late stage of the optic vesicle, and that retinal differentiation is reflected by the amount of vimentin in epithelial cells.
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- H Iwatsuki
- Department of Anatomy, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan
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Turowski P, Myles T, Hemmings BA, Fernandez A, Lamb NJ. Vimentin dephosphorylation by protein phosphatase 2A is modulated by the targeting subunit B55. Mol Biol Cell 1999; 10:1997-2015. [PMID: 10359611 PMCID: PMC25403 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.6.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The intermediate filament protein vimentin is a major phosphoprotein in mammalian fibroblasts, and reversible phosphorylation plays a key role in its dynamic rearrangement. Selective inhibition of type 2A but not type 1 protein phosphatases led to hyperphosphorylation and concomitant disassembly of vimentin, characterized by a collapse into bundles around the nucleus. We have analyzed the potential role of one of the major protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) regulatory subunits, B55, in vimentin dephosphorylation. In mammalian fibroblasts, B55 protein was distributed ubiquitously throughout the cytoplasm with a fraction associated to vimentin. Specific depletion of B55 in living cells by antisense B55 RNA was accompanied by disassembly and increased phosphorylation of vimentin, as when type 2A phosphatases were inhibited using okadaic acid. The presence of B55 was a prerequisite for PP2A to efficiently dephosphorylate vimentin in vitro or to induce filament reassembly in situ. Both biochemical fractionation and immunofluorescence analysis of detergent-extracted cells revealed that fractions of PP2Ac, PR65, and B55 were tightly associated with vimentin. Furthermore, vimentin-associated PP2A catalytic subunit was displaced in B55-depleted cells. Taken together these data show that, in mammalian fibroblasts, the intermediate filament protein vimentin is dephosphorylated by PP2A, an event targeted by B55.
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- P Turowski
- Cell Biology Unit, Institut de Genetique Humaine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UPR 1142, F-34396 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Ku NO, Michie SA, Soetikno RM, Resurreccion EZ, Broome RL, Omary MB. Mutation of a major keratin phosphorylation site predisposes to hepatotoxic injury in transgenic mice. J Cell Biol 1998; 143:2023-32. [PMID: 9864372 PMCID: PMC2175212 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.143.7.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/1998] [Revised: 10/20/1998] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Simple epithelia express keratins 8 (K8) and 18 (K18) as their major intermediate filament (IF) proteins. One important physiologic function of K8/18 is to protect hepatocytes from drug-induced liver injury. Although the mechanism of this protection is unknown, marked K8/18 hyperphosphorylation occurs in association with a variety of cell stresses and during mitosis. This increase in keratin phosphorylation involves multiple sites including human K18 serine-(ser)52, which is a major K18 phosphorylation site. We studied the significance of keratin hyperphosphorylation and focused on K18 ser52 by generating transgenic mice that overexpress a human genomic K18 ser52--> ala mutant (S52A) and compared them with mice that overexpress, at similar levels, wild-type (WT) human K18. Abrogation of K18 ser52 phosphorylation did not affect filament organization after partial hepatectomy nor the ability of mouse livers to regenerate. However, exposure of S52A-expressing mice to the hepatotoxins, griseofulvin or microcystin, which are associated with K18 ser52 and other keratin phosphorylation changes, resulted in more dramatic hepatotoxicity as compared with WT K18-expressing mice. Our results demonstrate that K18 ser52 phosphorylation plays a physiologic role in protecting hepatocytes from stress-induced liver injury. Since hepatotoxins are associated with increased keratin phosphorylation at multiple sites, it is likely that unique sites aside from K18 ser52, and phosphorylation sites on other IF proteins, also participate in protection from cell stress.
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- N O Ku
- Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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Baldwin SA, Broderick R, Blades DA, Scheff SW. Alterations in temporal/spatial distribution of GFAP- and vimentin-positive astrocytes after spinal cord contusion with the New York University spinal cord injury device. J Neurotrauma 1998; 15:1015-26. [PMID: 9872458 DOI: 10.1089/neu.1998.15.1015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Astrocytes become reactive as a result of various types of lesions and upregulate 2 intermediate filaments, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and the developmentally regulated protein vimentin. Young female Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to a spinal cord contusion at segment T10 using the New York University injury device. Animals were killed at 1, 2, 7, 14, and 30 days postinjury. Horizontal spinal cord sections spanning segments T7-T13 were assessed with antibodies to both intermediate filament proteins. The number of gray matter GFAP-positive astrocytes increased by 2 days postinjury, with segments adjacent (proximal) to the injury site showing greater responses than areas several segments away (distal). By 30 days following injury, astroglial cell numbers returned to normal levels. Vimentin-positive astrocytes also showed a graded proximal/distal response by 2 days following injury. Proximal regions remained significantly higher at 30 days following injury than control animals. Rostral/caudal changes were also evident, with regions caudal to the injury showing significantly higher numbers of vimentin positive astrocytes than those rostral, indicating that gray matter areas caudal to spinal cord injury may undergo more stress following spinal cord injury.
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- S A Baldwin
- Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA
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Cheng TJ, Lai YK. Identification of mitogen-activated protein kinase-activated protein kinase-2 as a vimentin kinase activated by okadaic acid in 9L rat brain tumor cells. J Cell Biochem 1998. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4644(19981101)71:2<169::aid-jcb3>3.0.co;2-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Chu JJ, Chen KD, Lin YL, Fei CY, Chiang AS, Chiang CD, Lai YK. Taxol induces concomitant hyperphosphorylation and reorganization of vimentin intermediate filaments in 9l rat brain tumor cells. J Cell Biochem 1998. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4644(19980315)68:4<472::aid-jcb7>3.0.co;2-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Chen KD, Chen LY, Huang HL, Lieu CH, Chang YN, Chang MD, Lai YK. Involvement of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathway in the rapid induction of the 78-kDa glucose-regulated protein in 9L rat brain tumor cells. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:749-55. [PMID: 9422727 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.2.749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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We have previously shown that treatment with okadaic acid (OA) followed by heat shock (HS) (termed OA --> HS treatment) leads to rapid transactivation of the 78-kDa glucose-regulated protein gene (grp78) in 9L rat brain tumor cells. A cAMP-responsive element-like (CRE-like, TGACGTGA) promoter sequence and a protein kinase A signaling pathway are involved in this induction, and activation of both CRE binding protein (CREB) and activating transcription factor-2 (ATF-2) is required in the above process. Herein, we report that transactivation of grp78, as well as phosphorylation/activation of ATF-2, can be completely annihilated by SB203580, a highly specific inhibitor of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38(MAPK)). Activation of p38(MAPK) by OA --> HS is also substantiated by its own phosphorylation as well as the phosphorylation and activation of MAPK activating protein kinase-2 in cells subjected to this treatment. The involvement of p38(MAPK) in the activation of ATF-2, which leads to the transactivation of rat grp78, is confirmed by electrophoretic mobility shift assay using a probe containing the CRE-like sequence as well as by transient transfection assays with a plasmid containing a 710-base pair stretch of the grp78 promoter. Together with our previous studies, these results led us to conclude that phosphorylation/activation of CREB upon OA --> HS treatment is mediated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase, whereas that of ATF-2 is mediated by p38(MAPK). The transcription factors may bind to each other to form heterodimers that in turn transactivate grp78 by binding to the CRE-like element. This suggests that distinct signaling pathways converge on CREB-ATF-2, where each subunit is individually activated by a specific class of protein kinases. This may allow modulation of grp78 transactivation by diverse external stimuli.
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- K D Chen
- Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30043, Republic of China
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Chen KD, Hung JJ, Huang HL, Chang MD, Lai YK. Rapid induction of the Grp78 gene by cooperative actions of okadaic acid and heat-shock in 9L rat brain tumor cells--involvement of a cAMP responsive element-like promoter sequence and a protein kinase A signaling pathway. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1997; 248:120-9. [PMID: 9310369 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.t01-1-00120.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We have demonstrated that treatment with 200 nM okadaic acid (OA) for 1 h followed by a 15-min heat shock (HS) at 45 degrees C (termed OA-->HS treatment) leads to a rapid transactivation of grp78, the gene for the 78-kDa glucose-regulated protein, in 9L rat brain tumor cells. The level of Grp78 mRNA rose 15-fold in 60 min after the combined treatment. Nuclear extracts from cells subjected to OA-->HS treatment, compared to those of treatment with OA or HS alone, exhibited an increased binding activity toward an oligonucleotide probe containing the cAMP-responsive element-like (CRE-like, TGACGTGA) regulatory element in electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA). The binding resulted in the formation of two protein-EMSA probe complexes exhibiting different association and dissociation rates in kinetic studies. The protein factors in the upper band (complex I) and lower band (complex II) were identified as the activating transcription factor-2 (ATF-2) and the CRE binding factor 1 (CREB-1), respectively, by antibody interference assays. In addition, the identity of CREB-1 was confirmed by supershift analysis. The binding activity, as well as the transactivation of the grp78 gene, can be abolished by a 1-h treatment with the cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) inhibitor but not with protein kinase C or Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II inhibitors. Accumulation of steady-state level of ATF-2 was observed and was also modulated by treatment with H-89, a PKA inhibitor. From these results, we conclude that the CRE-like element plays an important role in the rapid transactivation of the grp78 gene and that the PKA signaling pathway is involved. In addition, PKA-mediated transcriptional regulation of grp78 in OA-->HS treatment is through regulation of protein phosphorylation as well as de novo synthesis of ATF-2.
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- K D Chen
- Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Intermediate filament (IF) proteins, a large family of tissue specific proteins, undergo several posttranslational modifications, with phosphorylation being the most studied modification. IF protein phosphorylation is highly dynamic and involves the head and/or tail domains of these proteins, which are the domains that impart most of the structural heterogeneity and hence presumed tissue specific functions. Although the function of IF proteins remains poorly understood, several regulatory roles for IF protein phosphorylation have been identified or are emerging. Those roles include filament disassembly and reorganization, solubility, localization within specific cellular domains, association with other cytoplasmic or membrane associated proteins, protection against physiologic stress and mediation of tissue-specific functions. Understanding the mechanistic and functional aspects of IF protein phosphorylation is providing insights not only regarding the function of this modification, but also regarding the function of IF proteins.
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- N O Ku
- VA Palo Alto Health Care System, CA 94304, USA
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Chen KD, Chu JJ, Lai YK. Modulation of protein phosphorylation and stress protein expression by okadaic acid on heat shock cells. J Cell Biochem 1996. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4644(19960501)61:2<255::aid-jcb9>3.0.co;2-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Chen KD, Chu JJ, Lai YK. Modulation of protein phosphorylation and stress protein expression by okadaic acid on heat shock cells. J Cell Biochem 1996; 61:255-65. [PMID: 9173089 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4644(19960501)61:2%3c255::aid-jcb9%3e3.0.co;2-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We have demonstrated that pretreatment but not post-treatment with okadaic acid (OA) can aggravate cytotoxicity as well as alter the kinetics of stress protein expression and protein phosphorylation in heat shocked cells. Compared to heat shock, cells recovering from 1 hr pretreatment of OA at 200 nM and cotreated with heat shock at 45 degrees C for the last 15 min of incubation (OA-->HS treatment) exhibited enhanced induction of heat shock proteins (HSPs) 70 and 110. In addition to enhanced expression, the attenuation of HSC70 and HSP90 after the induction peaks was also delayed in OA-->HS-treated cells. The above treatment also resulted in the rapid induction of the 78 kDa glucose-regulated protein (GRP78), which expression remained constant in cells recovering from treatment with 200 nM OA for 1 hr, heat shocked at 45 degrees C for 15 min, or in combined treatment in reversed order (HS-->OA treatment). Enhanced phosphorylation of vimentin and proteins with molecular weights of 65, 40, and 33 kDa and decreased phosphorylation of a protein with a molecular weight of 29 kDa were also observed in cells recovering from OA-->HS treatment. Again, protein phosphorylation in cells recovering from HS-->OA treatment did not differ from those in cells treated only with heat shock. Since the alteration in the kinetics of stress protein expression and protein phosphorylation was tightly correlated, we concluded that there is a critical link between induction of the stress proteins and phosphorylation of specific proteins. Furthermore, the rapid induction of GRP78 under the experimental condition offered a novel avenue for studying the regulation of its expression.
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- K D Chen
- Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China
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The past year has seen significant progress in the characterization of intermediate filament proteins. New proteins have been identified and physiologically significant differences between known proteins have been revealed. Changes in intermediate filament organization have been linked to changes in cell behavior, and mutational analyses are beginning to reveal the connection between intermediate filament expression, network formation, cellular behavior and disease.
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Andreoli JM, Trevor KT. Structural and biological consequences of increased vimentin expression in simple epithelial cell types. CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON 1995; 32:10-25. [PMID: 8674130 DOI: 10.1002/cm.970320103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Cytoskeletal intermediate filaments (IFs) constitute a diverse family of proteins whose members are expressed in tissue-specific patterns. Although vimentin IFs are normally restricted to mesenchyme, a variety of cell types express vimentin alone or together with cell-specific IFs during growth, differentiation, and neoplasia. In this study, we have investigated the influence of increased vimentin expression on the simple epithelial cell phenotype. An expression vector encoding a human vimentin cDNA was transfected into murine HR9 endoderm and F9 embryonal carcinoma cell lines, which serve as models for early extraembryonic epithelial differentiation. Stable clones that expressed varying levels of human vimentin were characterized by human vimentin were characterized by immunofluorescence and biochemical analysis. A relatively high level of vimentin expression in HR9 and differentiated F9 epithelial cells resulted in aberrant vimentin structures with co-collapse of keratin K8/K18 filaments and lowered amounts of keratin protein. In F9 epithelial cells, the desmosomal proteins DP I/II did not appear to localize to cell surface desmosome s but rather but rather co-aggregated with the perturbed IFs. Although overall cell morphology was not dramatically altered, individual nuclei were distorted by excess intracellular vimentin. Furthermore, cell proliferation as well as the cell spreading response time were slowed. Ther appears to be a threshold effect regarding overall vimentin levels as cells that expressed lower amounts of the human vimentin exhibited no obvious structural nor biological effects. Our results demonstrate that wild-type vimentin can act as a "mutant" protein when present at high intracellular levels, inducing a variety of phenotypic changes.
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- J M Andreoli
- Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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